They had an idea of attempting, both of them, to set up for themselves independent principalities.

Three contemporaries, Sully, La Force, and the bastard of Angouleme, bear witness that Henry IV.

was deserted by as many Huguenots as Catholics.
The French royal army was reduced, it is said, to one half.

As a make-weight, Saucy prevailed upon the Swiss, to the number of twelve thousand, and two thousand German auxiliaries, not only to continue in the service of the new king, but to wait six months for their pay, as he was at the moment unable to pay them.

From the 14th to the 20th of August, in Ile-de-France, in Picardy, in Normandy, in Auvergne, in Champagne, in Burgundy, in Anjou, in Poitou, in Languedoc, in Orleanness, and in Touraine, a great number of towns and districts joined in the determination of the royal army.